"They made him a little different. They gave him a mustache, last year he was wearing a gown," a child said.

The bogeyman was stuffed fat with divorce papers, debt collection notices and the year's regrets.

One man put in "a lot of negative feelings and a lot of anger that shouldn't have happened."

Another chose "some old school work from last year."

A new generation got ready to burn him.
"It's a longtime tradition," one father said. "I came as a kid and we live in Arizona now so we brought our kids to share that tradition."

It was a lively and deathly 90th anniversary for another "gloomy one."

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